TY - BOOK AU - Naipul,V S TI - V.S. NAIPAUL : THE INDIAN TRILOGY SN - 9789382616900 U1 - 820.9 PY - 2016////00/01 PB - Pan Macmillan India KW - Travel Writing KW - Naipaul, V. S. -- (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), -- 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation KW - Naipaul, V. S. -- (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), -- 1932- -- Travel -- India KW - Theroux, Paul (Intr.) N1 - India: A wounded civilization ‘A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul’s stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts’ The Times Prompted by the Emergency of 1975, Naipaul casts a more analytical eye, convinced that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration. India: A million minutes now ‘Indispensable for anyone who wants seriously to come to grips with the experience of India’ New York Times Book Review It is twenty-six years since Naipaul’s first trip to India. Taking an anti-clockwise journey around the metropolises—including Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Delhi—he focuses on the country’s development since Independence. The author recedes, allowing Indians to tell the stories and a dynamic oral history of the country emerges ER -